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<span class=large>THE PROVERBS</span>
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CHAPTER 9
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Rebuke a wise man and he will love thee—The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom—The guests of an immoral woman are in the depths of hell.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="prov/9/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 26: 35."><span class='smallcaps'>Wisdom</span></a> hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
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She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
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She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
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Whoso <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/9/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 1: 23.">simple</a>, let him turn in hither: <i>as for</i> him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
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<sup>a</sup><a href="prov/9/5a" mark="a" type="D" title="Wisdom prepares her feast and invites participants.">Come</a>, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine <i>which</i> I have mingled.
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Forsake the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/9/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 66: 10.">foolish</a>, and live; and go in the way of <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/9/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Prov. 6: 32.">understanding</a>.
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He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked <i>man</i> <i>getteth</i> himself a blot.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="prov/9/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Chastening.">Reprove</a> not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/9/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 141: 5.">love</a> thee.
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Give <i>instruction</i> to a wise <i>man,</i> and he will be yet wiser: <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/9/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Teaching.">teach</a> a just <i>man,</i> and he will <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/9/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Matt. 13: 12 (11-12); D&C 88: 118.">increase</a> in <sup>c</sup><a href="prov/9/9c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Learning.">learning</a>.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/9/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Reverence.">fear</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> the beginning of <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/9/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Wisdom.">wisdom</a>: and the <sup>c</sup><a href="prov/9/10c" mark="c" type="A" title="Prov. 30: 3.">knowledge</a> of the <sup>d</sup><a href="prov/9/10d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Holiness.">holy</a> <i>is</i> <sup>e</sup><a href="prov/9/10e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Understanding.">understanding</a>.
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For by me thy <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/9/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 17: 55; Mosiah 14: 10.">days</a> shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
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If thou be <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/9/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 35: 7 (6-8).">wise</a>, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but <i>if</i> thou scornest, thou alone shalt <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/9/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gal. 6: 5 (4-5).">bear</a> <i>it.</i>
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&#182; A foolish <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/9/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Woman.">woman</a> <i>is</i> clamorous: <i>she is</i> simple, and knoweth nothing.
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For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
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To call passengers who go right on their ways:
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Whoso <i>is</i> simple, let him turn in hither: and <i>as for</i> him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
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Stolen waters are sweet, and bread <i>eaten</i> in secret is pleasant.
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But he knoweth not that the dead <i>are</i> there; <i>and that</i> her guests <i>are</i> in the depths of <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/9/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 12: 11; D&C 29: 38; D&C 76: 84 (84-86).">hell</a>.
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